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Ghost Towns of Wyoming
Wyoming's ghosts are coal and rail: Union Pacific mining towns along the mainline, oil camps of the 1920s, and South Pass gold country — plus homestead hamlets the wind still owns.
430 sites surveyed across Wyoming — 6 charted with full records so far, entered by year of settlement. The rest are awaiting verification.
✕Charted — click for the recordSurveyed — records pending
Survey note
The federal place-name archive records 430 vanished or historical sites in Wyoming — ghost towns, mining camps, townsites, and railroad stops. We chart them a few at a time, as the records can be verified. Every mark on this map is a place that once had a name.
TownYearsLast pop.Classification
South Pass CityFremont Co.Historic TownsitePiedmontUinta Co.Vanished PlaceAtlantic CityFremont Co.Near-AbandonedMiner's DelightFremont Co.Verified Ghost TownKirwinPark Co.Verified Ghost TownJeffrey CityFremont Co.Near-AbandonedThe full survey ledger
Every vanished town the federal archive records in Wyoming — each with its own record page, verified and expanded over time.
BattleCarbon Co.BessemerNatrona Co.Blue HillNatrona Co.CambriaWeston Co.ClaretonWeston Co.CollinsAlbany Co.CoppertonCarbon Co.DextervilleCarbon Co.DillonCarbon Co.DinesSweetwater Co.EadsvilleNatrona Co.ElwoodCarbon Co.FerrisCarbon Co.Fort LaCledeSweetwater Co.Four CornersWeston Co.Hat CreekNiobrara Co.Ivans GroveCarbon Co.Lightning FlatCrook Co.Marvin PlaceCarbon Co.MorriseyCarbon Co.MyersvilleFremont Co.RamblerCarbon Co.Rock CreekAlbany Co.RudefehaCarbon Co.Salt CreekNatrona Co.SampoCarbon Co.ShirleyCarbon Co.Soda ButtePark Co.Squaw HollowSweetwater Co.TrelonaGoshen Co.WiddowfieldCarbon Co.WintonSweetwater Co.